COMMUNICATIONS: A Little Opium

Both CBS and RCA have been waiting
more than a month for the Federal Communications Commission to decide
whether it will authorize color television. This week CBS gave FCC a
nudge, announced that it will offer color television for industrial and
scientific uses, over closed telephone lines which are not involved in
the color decision.

CBS made a deal with Remington Rand to build and sell the
camera-and-receiver TV unit. Expected cost: about $20,000.*
CBS thought that medical groups, which for some time now have been viewing
operations in color TV, would be the likeliest customers. CBS and Rand
hope...